Wednesday, October 30, 2013

It's been a while that I have been following the blog of a very talented young girl Maria Sabina, known in a Blogland as Lollyrot. Her works are fabulous and she also has a YouTube channel where you may watch how this or that project was created.

Maria has created her own digital stamps collection called "Lollypie" and invited me to be a part of her wonderful Design Team.

During the next three months I'll be making one project a month, each time presenting another cute image from the collection.

So here's my first post and first card for Lollyrot with a "Special Delivery" stamp:

Prepare the hinges for the mini album base and lid. Cut long strips of cardstock 1" X 12", score each one of them in half (0.5").

Let's make only 4 strips first, and then add more (if needed).

Step 10

In order to form the mini album base, we'll glue down the chipboard pieces to cardstock measuring 8 3/4" X 10 3/4". For the sake of convenient work, draw border lines at 0.5" from all the 4 sides of the paper:

Step 11

Take the chipboard pieces we prepared for the album base, and attach scor-tape on each piece on the sides as follows (I'm using 1/4" scor-tape):

Step 12

Glue all the pieces down to the cardstock as shown on the picture below. Leave 1/8" space between the parts:

Step 13

Add 0.5" border to the central piece, trim the access paper, miter the corners. Your result at this stage has to be as shown below:

Step 14

Apply scor-tape on the outer edge of the chipboard base as shown:

Step 15

Wrap the edges and glue them down. Your finished mini-album base now should look like this:

Step 16

Now let's get back to the hinges. Right now we need 4 of them:

1" X 5" (2 pc)

1" X 4 1/8" (2 pc)

Attach scor-tape to the back side of the hinges:

Step 17

Remove the tape backing and insert the hinges to their places:

Step 18

For the lid cut cardstock measuring 9 3/4" X 6.5". Draw a 0.5" border from all the 4 sides:

Step 19

Just as we did in the steps 12 & 13, glue down the chipboard pieces in the following way and miter the corners:

Make diagonal cuts in the inner corners:

Apply scor-tape on the outer edges of the chipboard pieces as shown:

Don't wrap the lid yet.

Step 20

Prepare another 4 hinges:

1" X 5 1/4" (2 pc)

1" X 1.5 " (2 pc)

Apply scor-tape to the back side of the hinges:

Step 21

Attach the hinges first:

Step 22

Wrap the piece:

Step 23

Prepare 4 additional hinges:

1" X 1 7/8" (4 pc).

With the help of these hinges assemble the lid:

Step 24

The most of the work is finished:

Step 25

I made the camera lens from the roll of glue-dots. just covered it with black paper:

Step 26

Glue the white foto mats onto the film strips. In order to attach the film to the album base, apply scor-tape to the last "frame":

This is how your base will look like from the top:

Now when everything was almost finished, I though which paper I should use for embellishing my camera album. I had Graphic 45 "Steampunk Spells" paper left from this Mini-Album, there were only several sheets left, but I didn't need a lot this time: